effect the person, but also all the people who have been touched by that person because they suffer as well.To say that God may not have control over who suffers and who does not makes Him seem like he’s not all-powerful, so God must play a part in this suffering. There are two reasons one can formulate that might give justification to this terrible suffering. One might be that we suffer as a test to prove our faith in God can survive no matter the circumstances. We see this test arise in the book of Job. Job is a man whom has done no wrong, has a great family, and a strong belief in God. According to the Bible, God puts the fate of Job’s in Satan’s hands. Satan reaps everything from Job except for his life. Job never questioned the existence of God or His almighty power, but Job did question God’s silence throughout his turmoil. When God finally answered, Job was rewarded for not loosing faith and “…spoken of Me what is right”(Job 42:8). Job suffered a great deal and still did not loose his faith in God, and in the end God gave Job “twice” what he had before. Job passed God’s test of suffering. In Wiesel’s Night we see a different situation. Wiesel, like Job, had strong convictions about his faith. During the course of the book we see Wiesel’s faith weaken with the increasing suffering of the Holocaust. We see him go from praying and weeping to “Never shall I forget those flames which consumed my faith forever”(pg. 32). Wiesel obviously did not pass the inquest as Job did, that is, he lost some of his faith about God’s “absolute justice”(pg. 42). Could God have been testing Wiesel and his fellow Jews to see if their faith was as strong as they believed it to be? The difference between Job the Holocaust was that God never hurt Job’s body, however the Jews were slaughtered by the thousands. Maybe if Wiesel and hi...
